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Dibs on calling him Drago.

And when an actually good relative showed up, they passed on him.

A Russian orphan. What a crazy story.

It's probably the build up expectation for this year being something different being pitching by a couple of people, but outside of the lottery ticket in the 20th round, this felt like every Rick Hahn draft ever.

24 is his grad year, not his age.

Fun non sequitor: The Sox took one kid in this draft who is younger than George Wolkow,and even that was only by a month.

All right the draft is over, let's get to dealing!

Well, it is the 20th round, so they aren't counting on signing him, but getting a guy like this into the system sure makes the class a lot better.

All right now we are talking. 19 year old high school kid gets knocked off of a lot of lists automatically. Big boy with big projected power.

Ah, this is back to the Getz is God quest. As you were soldier.

I get there are some of these guys in every class, but it just feels like this specific group of them was much worse than usual, and we didn't get much for it. Hopefully some of them make me look back, but it is basically a 5ish man class as it stands now, and it seems to lack the group of guys who maybe could break out if something interesting happens. There just isn't much in the way of either high ceilings, or even high floors.

I definitely don't hate the guy like a lot of people do, but he is not even close to the quality of Benetti.

Plus there are more physical specimen's and one loud tool type players. I know you probably aren't drafting real players here, but I do like them looking for something they can try to work with. Go back to a guy like Duke Ellis and his 80 speed, or the guy who hits 101 and can't find the zone. Give me a tool you can't teach and see if we can do something with it.

So you randomly picked the number of ranked players for one year in the 10th round to come to the conclusion that 5 rounds worth of those picks is normal? I am not sure what you are on, but sure. Roll with it.,

It's wild to me that we are getting more interesting senior signs now than we did yesterday.

Then why does he matter, exactly?

From Russia? lol, wat? Lyle Miller-Green Austin Peay (TN) Russia TWP R/R 4YR 5S -- 6' 5" 237lbs DOB:09/04/00

We brought in a lot of live arms at the deadline last year, plus a whole of grind in the system's upper levels this season.

None of those guys have gotten to the majors right? I also don't see any of them in our top 30, at least at MLB so far.

is that because of player's increasing velocity, or players we brought into the system like Grant Taylor throwing 99?

nice

That's what we have been doing for years.